Speech Planning Sheet - Informative Speech

Speech Planning Sheet

Your name: MJ Quintana

Topic of your speech:
Boys and Girls Club of America

General purpose: (informative, persuasive, inspire, entertain)
Informative

Specific purpose statement: (write this down to make sure that you have thought through our purpose. You do not say this statement in the speech)
To inform audience about what the Boys and Girls Club of America is and how it helps the youth and families of our country.

My specific purpose is to inform my audience about ____Boys and Girls Club of America___ (fill in the main idea of your speech).

Introduction: Attention step: How will you hook the audience?
Famous Celebrities who attended Boys and Girls Club of America before making it big.

Credibility step: (state your experience, your research or both)
My experience is working for the Boys and Girls Club of American in Ada County, Boise, Idaho.

Central idea: one sentence (sometimes called a thesis) that sums up whole speech that you say in the introduction. It should be something like: "Today I would like to tell you about ....).
Today I want to tell you about the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Preview: Road map for the audience your main points.
How the Boys and Girls Club of America came to be, what importance it serves in our country, how it influences the youth that intended the club and the future of the BGCA.

Outline of Main Points: (No sub-points. Use Roman Numerals -- should look like the body portion of Chapter Ten outlines).
I. The Boys and Girls Club of American started back in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut.
II. The importance of the BGCA stands by its main slogan, “Great futures start here.”
III. It influences our youth because so many of the celebrities of our country today used to be club members such as Usher, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Lopez and more!
IV. All across the United States there is a new club opening daily. Right now where I am from Boise, ID is in development of opening a new club.